Handbook of Farm Dairy and Food Machinery

Myer Kutz has been heading his own firm, Myer Kutz Associates, Inc., since 1990. For the past two decades, he has focused on writing and developing engineering handbooks on a wide range of technical topics, such as mechanical, materials, biomedical, transportation, and environmentally conscious engineering. Earlier, his firm supplied consulting services to a large client roster, including Fortune 500 companies, scientific societies, and large and small publishers. He has been a trustee of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and chaired committees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP). He is a long-time judge for the AAP's annual PROSE Awards, and holds engineering degrees from MIT and RPI, served as an officer in the US Army Ordnance Corp, and worked in the aerospace industry on the Apollo project. He is the author of nine books. He writes “The Scholarly Publishing Scene”, a column for the magazine Against the Grain. He lives in Delmar, New York, with his wife, Arlene.

• The Food EngineerFood RegulationsFood Safety EngineeringFarm Machinery DesignFarm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting, Cultivation, and HarvestingGrain Harvesting MachineryGrain Storage Systems DesignMilking Machinery DesignFood Processing Operating Systems and Machinery DesignDairy Product ProcessingGrain Processing EngineeringTechnology of Processing of Horticultural CropsFood Drying and EvaporationFood Freezing TechnologyHeat and Mass Transfer in Food ProcessingFood RheologyThermal Processing for Food Sterilization and PreservationFood Process ModelingDesign of Food Processing Controls SystemsOhmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat ProductsFood Processing Facility DesignAgricultural Waste Management in Food ProcessingFood Packaging Systems and Machinery DesignFood Packaging for Damage Reduction During Transportation and HandlingFood Packaging Machinery